Day 9 Agenda

1. Day 9 Agenda Enduring Understanding • Due to changing technology and new opportunities, American society in the 1950s headed towards a more simultaneously more diverse and more homogenous culture • Consider how culture spreads in the past and in the present • Create a poster displaying cause and effect for a given area in the 1950s • Use your classmates’ posters to fill out Chapter 4 Graphic Organizer • Complete worksheet on cultural critics • Decide whether you agree or disagree with the cultural critics

2. How did/does “culture” spread? • Consider the above question in these five time periods • Ancient History • Colonial America • 19th century • Post World-War II • Present Day • Does technology lead to a more or less diverse culture?

3. Cause & Effect Poster • There were a variety of changes in Postwar America. These changes effected society, the economy, and individual lives. • In groups of three, you will create a poster that demonstrates the “Cause & Effect” of these changes • Then you will hang up your posters and fill out the graphic organizer in your packet (pp. 2-3) using your classmates’ posters

4. Instructions for Poster • Explain Cause & Effect for your topic • Cause: What led to this change? • Effect: What impact did this change have on American society? • Informative • You can use diagrams, words, flow charts, or pictures to show cause & effect of your topic. • Be Creative!

5. Teen Culture • Causes • Baby boom • Prosperity • TV • Growth of compulsory high school education • Consumerism and marketing • Effects • Generational separation of music, arts, cinema, fashion and attitudinal values of young people from older people • Desegregation of music (white people listened to “black” music), popularity of rock’n’roll, concern about juvenile delinquency, promotion of post-materialist values, greater sexual “freedom”

6. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

7. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

8. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

9. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

10. Criticisms of Cultural Change • Religious leaders – thought that the culture was getting away from traditional American values because there was the promotion of sex, gender role changes, the evil of greed, covetousness through advertising and consumerism and increased violence in media. • Writers/artists – thought that the culture was too conformist and stifling, too homogenized, lacking in creativity and individuality – too bland. • Sociologists – thought there was too much peer pressure, too inner directed with individualized goals rather than social communal and outer-directed goals. They believed there was a loss of individual personality due the need to work within an organization system

11. Was cultural change in the 1950s positive or negative? • Did it lead to more or less diversity?